[http://www.twitter.com Twitter] is a free [[Microblogging]] service that allows you to compose blog posts of 140 characters or less via:

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[http://www.twitter.com Twitter] is a free online social networking service and [[microblogging]] service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Today Twitter is becoming a commonly used marketing tool for companies and organizational tool for social movements such as the [http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/03/world/africa/women-arab-uprisings/index.html Arab Spring ].

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* Twitter's web interface

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* SMS (text messages from your cell phone)

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* instant messaging (send messages from selected

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* third-party applications

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** [http://hootsuite.com/ HootSuite]

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** [http://snook.ca/snitter/ Snitter]

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** [http://tweetdeck.com/ Tweetdeck]

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** [http://www.twhirl.org/ Twhirl]

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** [http://twitterfox.net/ TwitterFox]

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** [http://twitterfeed.com/ Twitterfeed]

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People may follow your posts via:

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* Twitter's web interface

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==Twitter Tools and Applications==

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* SMS (text messages from your cell phone)

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These third-party tools will help you organize your Twitter feed:

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* instant messaging (send messages from selected

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* [http://hootsuite.com/ HootSuite]

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* third-party applications

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* [http://snook.ca/snitter/ Snitter]

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** [http://snook.ca/snitter/ Snitter]

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* [http://tweetdeck.com/ Tweetdeck]

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** [http://www.twhirl.org/ Twhirl]

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** [http://twitterfox.net/ TwitterFox]

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These applications will help you manage your tweets:

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* in a feed reader (your posts generate a unique RSS feed)

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* [http://twittercounter.com/ Twittercounter]

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* [http://twuffer.com/ Twuffer]

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* [http://tweetlater.com/ Tweetlater]

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* [http://tweetbeep.com/ Tweetbeep]

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* [http://grouptweet.com/ Grouptweet]

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* [http://www.twhirl.org/ Twhirl]

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* [http://twitterfeed.com/ Twitterfeed]

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These tools will help you get the most out of your Twitter account:

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* [http://twibs.com/ Twibs]

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* [http://twitpic.com/ Twitpic]

= Libraries using Twitter =

= Libraries using Twitter =

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Many libraries have been using this popular social media tool as a way to communicate with and engage their patrons.

I think it would be nice to have libraries tell how they use twitter, and thus share their best practices in stead of only mentioning that they use it.

I think it would be nice to have libraries tell how they use twitter, and thus share their best practices in stead of only mentioning that they use it.

Latest revision as of 14:44, 4 October 2012

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Twitter is a free online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Today Twitter is becoming a commonly used marketing tool for companies and organizational tool for social movements such as the Arab Spring .